the government has tripled funding for research and development resulting in a doubling of researchers and developers in Hungary since 2010 State Secretary for Families at the Ministry of Culture and Innovation Zsófia Koncz stated during the Tiszalúc Youth Innovation Forum on Saturday Koncz highlighted that this marks the third largest growth in this sector within the European Union the number of PhD students has nearly doubled over the past five years with 30 per cent of them being international students which reflects the global appeal of Hungarian higher education institutions Koncz also noted the government’s efforts in modernizing universities and reforming the research funding system based on excellence She announced the launch of the Bring the Champions Home programme led by Nobel laureate physicist Ferenc Krausz aimed at attracting researchers back to Hungary Physicist Gergely Endrődi has already joined the programme from Germany and Krausz is committed to recruiting more scientists Koncz also discussed the government’s reforms in vocational education including the introduction of a scholarship programme to engage young people through cooperation with businesses She stressed the importance of forming an alliance with the youth to ensure Hungary’s success in innovation which plays a crucial role in a country’s economic performance ‘Hungary aims to be among the top ten most innovative countries in the EU and the top twenty-five globally by 2030’ Koncz emphasized that Europe’s competitiveness depends on successful young people and pointed to key government programmes like the János Selye Student Lab Network Hungary aims to be among the top ten most innovative countries in the EU and the top twenty-five globally by 2030 Tiszalúc’s independent mayor Norbert Siri highlighted that this was the second time the town hosted a forum focusing on the future of the youth stressing the importance of dialogue and youth participation in local governance Cultural and Recreational Sports Association Éva Hegedűsné Stion described the forum as part of their four-year mission to support local youth and young families with educational and recreational opportunities Hungarian Conservative is a quarterly magazine on contemporary political philosophical and cultural issues from a conservative perspective This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.